Ajax & Scripting

Free Tool for Deep AJAX Analysis

In web development, knowledge is power.  Without a decent AJAX diagnostic tool, it's hard to know what's slowing down your site.  Even basic performance...

0 replies - 534 views - 11/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

New .NET Features from Telerik

Telerik, a .NET development tool vendor, revealed its latest list of releases.  The list includes Silverlight advances and ORM support for SQL Azure. ...

0 replies - 1107 views - 11/04/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The $10k Code Challenge

Up for a challenge?  How about $10,000?  Visual WebGui is offering $10,000 and giving away prizes for developers who submit a Webmail application written by...

0 replies - 1530 views - 11/03/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

New IBM Tool Simplifies Creation of Mobile Web Pages

A new visual editor is under development at IBM that can adapt a web page for voice and mobile browsers.  The technology has no name currently, but IBM has...

0 replies - 956 views - 10/27/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Adobe Launches ColdFusion 9 into the Cloud

Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 are available today along with a private beta of the new ColdFusion in the Cloud that will run in the Amazon...

0 replies - 2675 views - 10/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

JavaServer Faces vs. Ajax Frameworks - Why Ajax is Better and Not Just Hype

Today I am looking into a JavaServer Faces application that I am having to make a few changes to. I didn't write it and the developer who did write it, wishes...

25 replies - 5496 views - 08/20/09 by chrislhardin in Articles

Oh, Fer Cryin’ Out Loud. Close the Darn Tag!

I’ve been working on a side project for a while now. A big AJAX-y web application with tons of moving parts. Last night I was getting ready to publish a...

0 replies - 946 views - 07/30/09 by james_johnson in News

Video: Progressively Enhance AJAX Applications with Google Web Toolkit and GQuery

Don't throw away your Web 1.0 websites just yet. In this session, you'll learn how to take your existing websites, and layer AJAX on top of them using...

0 replies - 1166 views - 07/29/09 by alashcraft in Videos

What is the Appeal of Ajax and GWT?

Ajax does have its detractors. Their argument goes as follows: Why reinvent everything that has already been done on the desktop on an inferior platform? I do...

17 replies - 4070 views - 07/03/09 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles

Google I/O 2009 - AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content

Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the...

1 replies - 1141 views - 06/29/09 by alashcraft in Videos

Ajax Survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are Almost Tied Among .NET Developers

Almost one month ago I created a survey in order to try and understand how .NET developers are using Ajax. And also to compare it with the results I collected...

0 replies - 1204 views - 06/26/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Thoughts on Google Wave

If you’re not yet seasick with all the reviews of Google Wave, here are a few additional thoughts. My mental picture for a Wave is that of an IRC channel on...

2 replies - 3080 views - 06/04/09 by vambenepe in News

AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition

Back in December 2007, Simone published an online survey about the usage of AJAX technologies among the .NET developers and after a short while, shared its...

2 replies - 979 views - 06/03/09 by keyvan in News

jQuery ProgressBar

Once you venture into the land of AJAX you’ll soon discover the need to let your user know that some work is taking place in the background.  If you can,...

0 replies - 2424 views - 05/29/09 by DaveMBush in News

Start Testing Your Javascript Server-less

Are you still launching tomcat to test your Javascript code? You shouldn't. When applying the MVC pattern, HTML as been always considered to be part of the...

1 replies - 3530 views - 03/24/09 by Ignacio Coloma in Articles